The best restaurants serving British food in East Woodhay Basingstoke and Deane South East

Visited a couple of weeks ago with our 14 year old daughter and not so little pup. Thought I had already reviewed but clearly, only did the review in my head so reviewing now as we had such a lovely time. Ended up here after first pub plans went out of the window because of the storm and them having no power. Really pleased to be honest as this was a great find. So relaxed, super friendly and very welcoming. Great atmosphere and great food. The menu isn't huge as some have said; but I would much prefer a "smaller" menu and quality fresh food, which is what we got here. None of us struggled to find anything we liked and they had a specials curry menu too. They were so accommodating. I can highly recommend the chicken pie, cheese and bacon burger and the fish and chips....which definitely was huge! All portions were a great size. My pie was one of the nicest I've have at a pub and it was nice for it to be served with fresh veg rather than just your standard peas. We stayed for a couple of hours, which past so quickly. Our pup loved meeting everyone and was even given treats by the lady behind the bar. Friends for life there! 🤣 We met some lovely people that are locals too. Shame I didn't make it back for the quiz night as we have been super busy, but we will definitely return and recommend to friends. Genuinely can not fault. Thank you so much to the fab staff and lovely people we met there.

We really liked it here and food was great. We sat in the bar playing games with family. Games are supplied by the pub. Only negatives for us was the lady behind the bar who was not welcoming or friendly in our view. She did nothing wrong but was just pretty curt and didn’t really seem like she wanted anyone there. Just our view seeing as we picked this pub at random and had never been before. The only other negative was the Aperol spritz which was very watery.